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The two countries’ astronauts will swap seats on each other’s rockets, and Vladimir Putin dismissed the leader of the Russian space agency, who had become known for bellicose outbursts.
By Kenneth Chang and Anton Troianovski
When SpaceX next launches a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station, one of the astronauts aboard will be Russian.
NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced on Friday that they had reached an agreement that would give Russian astronauts seats on American-built spacecraft in exchange for NASA astronauts’ getting rides to orbit on Russian Soyuz rockets.
Also on Friday, Russian president Vladimir V. Putin signed a decree dismissing Dmitry Rogozin, who since 2016 had led Roscosmos, the state corporation that oversees Russia’s space activities.
Russians and Americans in orbit have sustained their close cooperation despite the fracturing of ties between the two countries after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. The relationship also endured Mr. Rogozin’s repeated belligerent pronouncements in the Russian news media and on his Twitter and Telegram accounts.
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